INCREDIBLE HOG
Proto-Metal • United Kingdom
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Like so many early 70s bands, the three-piece London-based group Incredible Hog were a by product of the 60s British Blues Boom.
In an attempt to mix melodic pop with heavy rock and intelligent, meaningful lyrics, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Ken Gordon and bassist Jim Holmes, who'd actually been at school together and played in the band Speed Auction, formed Incredible Hog in early 1972, the name actually being a play on the then highly popular 'Incredible Hulk' comic book series.
Various auditions finally brought the group a permanent drummer in the shape of South African-born Tony Awin. However, getting any kind of gigs at the time was not easy, so in an effort to solve the problem the band set up their own club, The Pig Sty, which was based initially in Ilford and then in Forest Gate, East London.
By booking adverts in the then prestigious Melody Maker, the band's name started
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Volume 1
Proto-Metal
1973
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